On Tuesday, the US military statement threatened to treat any boats that get close to US warships as a “threat,” calling on other nations to keep their distance. Iran’s Navy has responded, saying their own missions will remain unchanged.
The US statement comes amid threats to target Iranian ships for getting too close. Iranian ships don’t really get within 100 meters of US ships anyhow, unless the US ships are in Iranian territorial water, and this realistically would never come up with a military ship.
Indeed, many interpreted the US statement as mostly warning off commercial ships. Threatening Iran, however, is common for the US, and it is common for Iran to insist the US statements aren’t going to force them into any changes.
So long as Iran and the US both have ships in the Persian Gulf, there is a risk of confrontations. US forces, however, aren’t leaving and are constantly issuing statements to Iran, while Iran is clearly going to keep its ships in its territorial water.
Yo, it’s called the Persian Gulf not the Washington Gulf. Get it!
Big faced Pompeo is considering to change the name. He is waiting for the nod from Zionists
we will impose limits on how far iran can venture off their shoreline if necessary. if they violate we will get to try out our new bottom of the ship hole borer. how deep is the straight of hormuz. i hope it can hold their entire commercial ship fleet.
The chutzpah is incredible … We go 10,000 miles to the other side of the world and tell the local nation not to sail close to us on pain of attack! Why, it’s like going to the Sea of China and making threats against Chinese. Preposterous …
if china acts up we will correct them also. we are the world’s policemen. we have 800 military bases around the world. no other country has even one. maybe an outpost with tents and a jeep somewhere but that’s it.